According to the Voice of China "Newsletters" report, in recent years, various law enforcement inspection found that cases of illegal medical waste transactions have occurred after a number of media coverage has been a case, some did not take harmless treatment Medical waste, after simple processing and processing, was made into a one-time plastic plate and inferior toys.
The relevant person in charge of the State Health Planning Commission had previously emphasized that medical waste can not be recycled and must be collected and disposed by centralized disposal units of medical waste that have been approved by the environmental protection department. Then these illegal medical waste investigated and dealt with The case also revealed that the current medical waste disposal problems?
From many different hospitals out of infusion bags, urine bags, mixed with medical gloves, cotton swabs and even syringes and needles, was processed into recycled plastic raw materials, from Hunan to Hebei and other places ... ... This is June this year, Hunan Provincial High Court In a typical case, 140 tons of medical waste and medical waste were crushed by a criminal Qiu et al in a hidden farmhouse in Gupei town, Miluo City, Hunan Province and sold to other places in Langfang, Hebei Line. "In this case, a total of 12 people from Hunan, Hubei, Hebei and Jiangsu were sentenced for crimes of environmental pollution.
Coincidentally, the end of August last year, Nanjing Qixia Branch in the area around the swallows detection and rectification operations carried out found Gujiacun a waste collection station to store a large amount of medical waste.
Yanzijiji police station instructor Gong Endong: There are a lot of drug residues, so the smell of the scene is very unpleasant, the most important of these things which are also mixed with needles, syringes, infusion of skin, as well as cotton swab with blood.
Police subsequently carried out inventory of medical waste in the station and discovered a total of about 8.5 tons of medical waste containing needles and infusion tubes and about 5 tons of antibiotic-type small glass bottles, all in snake skin bags or black plastic bags. Zhang Zhang, a trader of the scrap purchase station, summoned Zhang to admit that he has repeatedly reshuffled medical waste for sale since 2012. Mr. Kwak, from Suqian, Jiangsu province, is his off-line.
Kwak: water bag, infusion bag, the beginning may be a 2 pound, the beginning we do not understand, crushed, washed with high temperature, and then crushed into plastic granules, shipped all over the country, this I I no longer know.
This reporter has learned that Kwak to 2,000 to 2,500 yuan per ton at prices ranging from the acquisition of disposable infusion bags Zhang, and then to 2,200 yuan per ton to 2800 yuan price range sold to the production of plastic granules processing plants, processing plants Plastic particles and then through the plastic market and network sales throughout the country plastic products manufacturers.
Gong Endong: his source, involving more than a dozen hospitals in Nanjing, about 10 tons of each hospital, he received a simple classification, the infusion bottle infusion bottle, infusion bag infusion bag.
The actual investigation by the police, Zhang since 2012, the acquisition, reselling the number of medical waste more than 3,000 tons, involving more than 4000 million worth of value.Zhang Mou and Kwak has been prosecuted, to accept the law severely punished.China's "Medical Waste Management Regulations" , The state promotes the centralized and harmless disposal of medical wastes and the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for organizing the construction of centralized facilities for the disposal of medical wastes and prohibiting the transfer and sale of medical wastes by any unit or individual.
Medical waste can not be recycled.However, the infusion bottle, the infusion bag that is not polluted by the patient's blood and body fluid is not a medical waste and has good recycling value.In fact, the quality of the plastic raw material for manufacturing the disposable infusion bag is far Far better than ordinary plastic products, if they can not be effectively recycled, they are burned according to the general disposal methods of medical waste, which is not only wasted, but also the main source of pollution caused by the burning of persistent organic pollutants. Reduce, detoxify and recycle medical waste that meets the requirements of international conventions.
On November 2, Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said in a special inquisition held by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that the management and disposal of medical waste will be incorporated into the evaluation and performance evaluation of medical institutions. Said that the implementation of good hospital garbage disposal measures, as soon as possible to resolve the disposal of prefecture-level markets.
Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said at a special inquisition held by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on March 2 that with the development of medical and health undertakings, the number of medical institutions has been increasing. At present, there are nearly 990,000 medical institutions in China and the amount of medical waste handled Also rapidly increasing.
Li Bin: Medical waste disposal capacity is not enough. Some prefecture-level cities still do not focus on the treatment of institutions, the hospital generated medical waste can not be sent to stay in the medical institutions to deal with their own risks and risks there will be a number of primary health care institutions, distribution Canton, small-scale, the cost of medical waste disposal is relatively high, local supervision is also more difficult.
In 2013 and 2017, China conducted two full-scale special supervision and inspections, covering more than 90% of all cases, and investigated and dealt with 26,000 medical and non-governmental organizations in violation of laws and regulations. In fact, there are about 1.35 million tons of medical waste in the country, 1/5 prefecture-level cities have no medical waste centralized disposal units.Health, environmental protection and other functional departments in the medical waste supervision and control process in the blind area, it is difficult to seamlessly regulate the supervision and supervision of the entire process, illegal medical waste reselling cases and more.
Li Bin: There is still a need to further strengthen the management of waste sorting within medical institutions. In particular, some uncontaminated and recyclable wastes, such as single-use infusion bags, are of high quality plastic but without formal recycling Channels .Now the media are exposed in this case, the formal enterprises did not recycle, but some small workshops recycling, bring some problems, poor exports.
National Health and Family Planning Commission will explore ways to take centralized medical treatment at the grass-roots level to send and receive unified treatment, and strive to solve the problems of medical waste collection, transit and disposal in primary medical institutions, and at the same time, intensify supervision and control and take this as an annual comprehensive Law enforcement supervision of the key elements of the management of medical waste, according to the law into the evaluation of medical institutions and performance appraisal, adhere to the routine supervision and investigation of typical cases combined to investigate violations.
Bin: to implement the hospital garbage disposal measures to reduce the source of waste generation and stock, at the same time, for non-polluting, recyclable waste, develop recovery methods, the original gray channels into compliance, Reasonable and legal channels for effective recovery and utilization.We suggest to solve the problem of ability to dispose of prefecture-level markets as soon as possible and gradually expand to the county level.